LITTLE NOTHING,by Marisa Silver. (Blue Rider Press, $16.) In this grown-up fairy tale, Pavla is born a dwarf, but over time shifts into a wolf girl; the man who built a torturous device to stretch her to a normal size loves her from afar in all her dysmorphic forms. As our reviewer, Matt Bell, put it, the novel “traces how memories and the stories we tell shape who we are and what we are capable of becoming.”

WHO KILLED THESE GIRLS?:The Unsolved Murders That Rocked a Texas Town,by Beverly Lowry. (Vintage, $8.99.) In December 1991, the bodies of four teenagers were found in the Austin, Tex., frozen-yogurt store where they worked — naked, bound, gagged and burned. Nearly 20 years later, Lowry becomes interested in the crime and recounts with a novelist’s pace all the facts and unresolved questions of the case.

A THOUSAND MILES FROM NOWHERE,by John Gregory Brown. (Lee Boudreaux/Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.) Henry Garrett — divorced, out of a job and out of money — left New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approached, finding unexpected solace in a small Virginia town. After he becomes involved in the accidental death of a black inmate, he is stranded at the hotel where he has been staying; an unlikely friendship forged there empowers him to return home and atone for his previous misdeeds.

PLAY ALL:A Bingewatcher’s Notebook,by Clive James. (Yale, $13.) While fighting leukemia, James — a critic, scholar and former television critic — takes to watching, with his daughter as a companion. The resulting collection of essays, centered on notable series from “The Sopranos” to “Breaking Bad,” brims with affection: for the arts, for criticism and for life itself.